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Welcome to the magical, mysterious and always memorable world of Goldie Frocks and the Bear Mitzvah. Join Goldie, the best dressmaker in all of the East End, as she zips her way through London on a quest for some furry fabrics. Along the way she meets Mama Behr and Baby Behr as they prepare for the best bear mitzvah that Cirque Du Oy Vey has ever seen!

You'll be in stitches laughing at all of the unbearable jokes, you'll be singing along with the pawsome on-stage band and we might even have a magic trick or two up our sleeves.

Our 2024 panto will be a fun-filled extravaganza for the whole family, brought to you by the same creative team behind the award-nominated, 5* sellout hit Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Pig.

So don't miss out, and book your tickets today!

NB: There's free parking on Finchley Road and adjacent side roads all-day Sunday. More info on our parking page.

Relaxed Performance Dates

Relaxed performances are ideal for people with learning disabilities or autism, or anyone who would benefit from a more relaxed environment.

These performances are of course still open for anyone to book. During our relaxed performances, we will be making the following changes:

  • House lights remaining switched on at a low level throughout the performance
  • Noise from the performance will be reduced throughout the performance
  • Reduced capacity to allow for freer movement around the audience space
  • No sudden flashes or lighting changes

Relaxed Performances will be shown on the following dates and times:

Wednesday 11 December @ 2pm
Tuesday 17 December @ 1pm 
Thursday 2 January @ 7pm

Live Captioning

The following performances will include live captioning: 

Saturday 28 December @ 7pm
Thursday 31 December @ 11am 
Saturday 2 January @ 7pm

Debbie Chazen - Mama Bear

Film inc:  Finger Food, Sleepyhead, Red Joan, Topsy Turvy, Pops, Feeder, Ploey, The Duel, Suzie Gold, Beginners Luck, Tooth

TV inc: The Sister Boniface Mysteries, Dalgliesh, The Last Kingdom, Dodger,  Avenue 5, Urban Myths, Trollied, The Spa, Tittybangbang, Psychoville, Dr Who, Sherlock, The Smoking Room, Dead Pixels, Sticks and Stones, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Nicholas Nickleby,  Agatha Raisin, Tess of the D’Urbevilles, We Are Klang, You, Me and the Apocalypse, Asylum, The Job  Lot, The Impressions Show, Ambassadors, Great Night Out, Doc Martin, Murder in Suburbia, Mine All Mine, This Is Jinsy, White Van Man, Uncle Max, The Estate Agents, Mile High, Grass, Doctors, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, An Unsuitable Job For A Woman, Casualty, Coronation Street, Cynthia, The Bill, Eastenders, A Christmas Carol, Killer Net, The Lakes

Theatre inc: Cable St (Southwark Playhouse); Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Pig (JW3); Stills (JW3), Jews: In Their Own Words (Royal Court), Our Generation (The National and Chichester Festival Theatre), The Child In The Snow (Wilton’s Music Hall), Gin Craze! (Northampton Royal & Derngate), Am Dram the Musical (Queen Mary II Cruise Ship, The Other Palace, Leicester Curve), Rags (Park Theatre), Sitting (Hong Kong), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), 3 Women (Trafalgar Studios), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Print Room), Calendar Girls The Musical (West End and tour - Oliver Award nomination, Best Actress in a Musical), Listen, We’re Family (JW3, Wilton’s Music Hall), Neko (The Kiln), Fred Karno’s Circus (Bristol Slapstick Festival), Calendar Girls the Play (West End and tour), The Duck House (Vaudeville Theatre), Love and Information, The Cherry Orchard (Sheffield Crucible), A Little Hotel On The Side (Bath Theatre Royal), Stephen Fry’s Cinderella (Old Vic), In Basildon, Untitled Matriarch Play, Mint, The President’s Come To See You, The Girlfriend Experience (The Royal Court), Mother Clapp’s Molly House, Beyond The Tracks (RSC), Crooked (The Bush), Phillip Pullman’s Aladdin (Bristol Old Vic), A Prayer for Owen Meany (The National Theatre),  Dick Whittington (Barbican), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Salisbury Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aldwych), Frogs (Nottingham Playhouse)

Radio inc: Chicken Soup With Barley, Jack and Millie, Family Business, Yentl, Chinwag, The Pick Up, Giles Wembley-Hogg, Electric Ink, The Lucy Montgomery Variety Pack, The Roland Darvelle Hotel, Pub and Murder Guide, Another Case of Milton Jones, St Brice’s Day, Dinner Ladies

Debbie is also a jazz singer and songwriter, performing under the name The Brazen Ms Chazen.

Frankie Thompson - Baby Bear

Frankie Thompson is an ‘acclaimed clown’ (ToDoList) and performance artist. Her work has had sell out runs across London and Edinburgh. Frankie's anarchic one-woman show Catts, a lip-synching adaptation of Cats(the musical), enjoyed a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022 to rave reviews which followed with two sell-out runs at Soho Theatre, extended due to phenomenal demand.

Heloise Lowenthal - Goldie

Heloise trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre Highlights include Robin Hood (Bristol Old Vic); The Rat Trap (New York City Center); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Yvonne Arnaud/Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre). Her work for screen includes, Before We Die (Channel 4); The Cider Shed Dreams (Pasture Promise); Rockumentary (Pendennis Films). They are currently taking part in a dramaturgy development scheme with Divergent Talent Group, and have worked as a creative collaborator on projects including we were promised honey  (YESYESNONO), The Last Show Before We Die (The Hotter Project), and Dear Young Monster (Bristol Old Vic). She has worked extensively with The Wardrobe Ensemble as an actor and collaborator. More recently, they have been taking part in the Yiddish Theatre Scene, including working on Miryeml, in its first ever public performance, having been translated from Yiddish by Sonia Gollance.

Ian Saville - Spirit

Ian Saville began doing magic tricks at the age of 10 or 11. Since then he has studied Drama at Exeter University, worked with the touring political theatre group Broadside Mobile Workers' Theatre, and in community theatre. Around 1979 he started developing a "socialist magic" act, using magic tricks and ventriloquism to present and celebrate a socialist view of the world which has been performed in theatres, cabaret clubs, festivals, as well as conferences, demonstrations and on picket lines. This developed into one-man shows such as the award winning Brecht on Magic (in which a ventriloquial dummy of Bertolt Brecht encourages the magician to incorporate socialist ideas into his tricks), Getting Nowhere Again (an examination of utopias in the company of William Morris), and The Free Money Magic Show (an examination of money and the magical way it works). Ian's PhD is on the history of workers’ theatre groups in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, and he taught for many years on the Theatre Arts course at Middlesex University.

Abigail Anderson - Director

Abi is an award-winning director who has directed more than 100 productions, around the UK and internationally.  She first directed panto when she was an Associate Director of the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds back in 2009, and has hardly missed a year doing panto somewhere since.  Besides panto, her other passions are Shakespeare (she has directed 18 of his plays so far) and adaptations of novels.  The adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for two actors which she co-created with Two Bit Classics has not only been revived several times in the UK, but three times in South Korea.  She is delighted to be directing at JW3 which she has visited often as a parent of young children.

Becky Plotnek - Producer

Becky Plotnek is a creative arts producer who makes things happen. They support irreverent, joyful, experimental work that is resistant to the way things are. They are currently working with a rich mix of artists across theatre, performance art, cabaret and combined arts, including Midgitte Bardot (AKA Tammy Reynolds), An* Neely & Moa Johannsson, and Hannah Maxwell. They were co-curator for DICE Festival which presented at Summerhall (Edinburgh Fringe) and Barbican. Becky is absolutely delighted to be returning to produce JW3's second pantomime. 

Becky-Dee Trevenen - Designer

Becky-Dee Trevenen is British-Australian Theatre Designer  with experience spanning many forms of live performance, with a particular focus on physical theatre and interactive design. Working on an international scale, her work ranges from intimate one-on-one experiences, to sprawling multi-warehouse installations.

Recent projects include: For Tangled Feet she designed dynamic, sculptural set-pieces for Butterflies (Half Moon, UK Tour) and Half Life (The Albany, Gulbenkian, Arc). For Migration Museum, she was commissioned to create two interactive installations for their 2020 exhibition Departures; And for Kings Head Theatre designed the West End transfer of Strangers In Between, The Offie-winning production of Tosca and the Olivier-nominated production of La Boheme.

She frequently works with immersive theatre pioneers Punchdrunk and Punchdrunk Enrichment, most recently, as the Head of Set Dressing on The Burnt City and is currently a Designer Mentor and Workshop Leader for Punchdrunk Enrichment.

Becky-Dee completed a Bachelor of Dramatic Art at NIDA in Sydney, Australia in 2014 where she was awarded the William Fletcher Foundation Award and was the Big Brother Movement Drama Scholar in 2015.

Josh Middleton - Musical Director

Josh Middleton is a multi-instrumentalist, Composer and Musical Director specialising in Klezmer. He has worked with Klezmer ensembles She’koyokh and The London Klezmer Quartet, taught at Klezfest UK alongside Klezmer Scholars Alan Bern and Joel Rubin and performed with Frank London (The Klezmatics) and Merlin Shepherd.

He has toured extensively as Musical Director and accordionist with String Theatre (Tunisia, Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Serbia), Nick Cassenbaum’s Bubble Shmeisis (UK, USA, Malta) and his ensemble Don Kipper( to much critical acclaim: **** The Guardian, **** The Evening Standard).

Theatre Credits include Indecent (The Menier Chocolate Factory 2020, 2021)

Musical Director Credits include Watch on the Rhine (The Donmar Warehouse 2022)

Nick Cassenbaum - Writer

Nick is a theatre maker whose work asks audiences to think about how they engage with spaces, places and people. Nick’s work has toured internationally, selling out in venues around the world. He has written plays, created and performed solo work and made street performances in collaboration with some of the country’s most celebrated venues, including The Royal Court, Soho Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre, and he has broadcast podcasts for The Guardian.

Yael Loewenstein - Choreographer

Yael trained in ballet and contemporary dance in Canada. When then undertaking her Masters in Choreography (Middlesex University), she discovered a passion for choreography and movement direction for narrative contexts working on theatre, opera, and screen-based media productions. For the past two and a half decades Yael’s work has been part of a wide variety of productions on stages small and large, from Shakespeare to new writing, music theatre to motion-capture, opera to choreography for new music. Yael teaches for several institutions including London Contemporary Dance School, Millennium Performing Arts College, and London Studio Centre. Over the years Yael has delivered movement-based experiences to people of all ages, notably for the Imagine Children’s Festival (Southbank Centre), and writing, directing, and choreographing an interactive piece of music theatre for the V&A Museum. For a full list of credits, please visit www.yaelloewenstein.com.

Please note

Child's tickets under 16

Under 2s do not require a ticket

Lower ticket prices apply for performances between 10–21 December and 2–5 January. Higher ticket prices apply between 22–31 December.

A booking fee of £2 will be added to all orders.

Access needs: Rows A-F have step-free access. 

Dates - -

£26/£30 per adult, £16/£19 per child

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